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Rest Day – A Big Fat Lie? 4/12

Rest Day – A Big Fat Lie? 4/12

…The underlying philosophy is this kind of Paleolithic diet theory. It’s what we ate during the 2 million years that we were hunter-gatherers on this planet. The fact that we were hunter-gatherers for 2 million years suggests it was an extraordinarily successful evolutionary adaptation. The question is: What did we eat during these 2 million [years] when we left the jungle, the trees, went down into savanna and started surviving on whatever we could hunt or gather? That’s the philosophy. The answer is, probably considerable meat, very low glycemic index, hard-to-digest roots and starches, and fruits and berries that look nothing at all like the beautiful Fuji applies you can buy at your local market now. Some carbohydrates, but whatever it was, it wasn’t refined. It wasn’t sugar. It wasn’t flour. It wasn’t easy to digest. That’s my going theory. If this theory’s right, the diet we evolved to eat is probably the correct diet…PBS interview with Gary Taubes